{"id":34140,"date":"2015-04-30T19:37:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=34140"},"modified":"2015-05-22T21:06:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T21:06:49","slug":"acc-students-receive-epa-award-for-innovative-water-disinfection-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/04\/30\/acc-students-receive-epa-award-for-innovative-water-disinfection-project\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC students receive EPA award for innovative water disinfection project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Student-developed system uses solar power to disinfect household water<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A team of 26 Austin Community College (ACC) students was awarded honorable mention for their solar-powered water disinfection system at the National Sustainable Design Expo in Alexandria, Virginia April 11 \u2013 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible honor,\u201d says Kristine Lilly, ACC student and project manager. \u201cWe\u2019ve proven that water disinfection can be done on a large scale using nothing but the sun\u2019s energy. When you add up the impact, it has the potential to save the U.S. more than 60 billion gallons of water a year in residential irrigation use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-34143 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/04\/EPA2-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"EPA2\" width=\"378\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/04\/EPA2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/04\/EPA2-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/04\/EPA2.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/>ACC students presented their low-cost, energy-efficient, and nontoxic system, which uses ultraviolet solar radiation to disinfect household water known as greywater for reuse in irrigation. The student research was a collaboration between teams in the college\u2019s biotechnology, engineering, environmental science, geology, and physics programs. Participating students came mostly from the National Science Foundation-sponsored S-STEM scholarship program. They spent the past nine months designing and building five prototypes. Biotechnology and Environmental Technology faculty served as advisors.<\/p>\n<p>Among the dozens who competed, ACC was the sole community college awarded the EPA\u2019s 2015 People, Prosperity, and the Planet award. \u00a0Others receiving honorable mention were Cornell University, Stanford University, and Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full list of 2015 P3 award winners online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/p3\/project_websites\/2015\/2015awardwinners.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">epa.gov\/p3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student-developed system uses solar power to disinfect household water A team of 26 Austin Community College (ACC) students was awarded honorable mention for their solar-powered water disinfection system at the National Sustainable Design Expo in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/04\/30\/acc-students-receive-epa-award-for-innovative-water-disinfection-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":33678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,19],"tags":[157,169,168,106,221],"class_list":["post-34140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-award","tag-epa","tag-solar-power","tag-stem","tag-water-disinfection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}